Taxi!

Have you ever been scared riding as a passenger in a car? I mean really scared?

A few years ago on one of our family vacations, we took a taxi to see the high divers dive off the cliffs in Alcapulco. You know where I'm going with this... Two things are very obvious as you make the drive up; No traffic signs, and every other business sells VW fenders and bumpers. My first obsevation was to ask myself why would there be sooo many auto shops, I don't mean a few, I mean like hundreds on these streets?

The trip up wasn't too bad, but the trip back down, and I mean flying back down these cliff hugging streets with no gardrails was a different venue all together. I counted no less than 3 close-miss accidents as we worked our way back down in the VW taxi....Whew, we made it back bodies intact.

Most of us would feel safer, if we knew there were gardrails in place, or that other people would obey traffic signs. That drive in that city had none, and my wife and kids were scared, and there may have been a couple momments for me as well.

Bottom line- God doesn't want us to have to live our lives without any guidelines, gardrails, yield and stop signs. His book is full of them, there to help keep us safe; when we choose not to trust in them, the risk of bodily harm increases.